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This text examines intellectual emancipation, the method and philosophy of teaching devised by Joseph Jacotot in 1818. The book contains a description and analysis of Jacotot's method, its premises, and implications for understanding both the learning process and the emancipation that results.

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“An extremely provocative, original, and engaging book, it raises questions of great relevance and urgency about the process of cultural selection and canonization.”–Denis Hollier, Yale University

Table of Contents
Translator's introduction; 1. An intellectual adventure; 2. The ignorant one's lesson; 3. Reason between equals; 4. The society of contempt; 5. The emancipator and his monkey; Notes.

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    Publisher: Stanford University Press
    Publication Date: 01/07/1991
    ISBN13: 9780804719698, 978-0804719698
    ISBN10: 0804719691
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This text examines intellectual emancipation, the method and philosophy of teaching devised by Joseph Jacotot in 1818. The book contains a description and analysis of Jacotot's method, its premises, and implications for understanding both the learning process and the emancipation that results.

    Trade Review
    “An extremely provocative, original, and engaging book, it raises questions of great relevance and urgency about the process of cultural selection and canonization.”–Denis Hollier, Yale University

    Table of Contents
    Translator's introduction; 1. An intellectual adventure; 2. The ignorant one's lesson; 3. Reason between equals; 4. The society of contempt; 5. The emancipator and his monkey; Notes.

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